Fiction Quotes · Page 87

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

“Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?”

— Nora Roberts

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

— Lynn Coady

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”

— Ben Monopoli

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

— Raymond Buckland

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

— Terry Pratchett

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

— Gertrude Atherton

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by…

— Tom Rachman

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people…

— Hari Kunzru

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word…

— Steve Earle

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than…

— Salman Rushdie

“This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.”

— Mark Zero

“Suddenly, a voice called from the darkness. Taylor leapt like a salmon, then became rooted to the spot like a tin of…

— Mark Jackman

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit…

— Brit Marling

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why…

— Orson Scott Card

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a…

— Neill Blomkamp

“He had dreamt about a dark-haired foreign boy. This boy held the key to the undoing of their demise. He had carried…

— Mary K. Savarese

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.…

— Sebastian Thrun

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the…

— Ron Rash

“So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?" "Yes." "Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something…

— Richelle Mead

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in…

— John Hyams

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction…

— Gail Simone

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

— Candace Camp

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

— Erica Jong

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

— Frederic Bastiat

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

— David Means

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

— Ranbir Kapoor

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

— William Blake

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

— Janeane Garofalo

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

— Matthew Specktor

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

— Arielle Ford

“For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.”

— Eve Babitz